[RESOLVED] Show keyboard in code and that "wait animation"

[szlamany]

Is it appropriate to force the keyboard to show - like when you are asking for a password? Or do you expect the user to toggle the keyboard on and off themselves?

How would you toggle the keyboard in code?

Also - if you are about to initiate a long operation - how do you show that "wait animation" that I see sometimes?

VS2005...

[petevick]

Hi,
pop an input panel on your form, and on the gotfocus event of the textbox you are interested in do inputpanel1.enabled = true. On the lostfocus event, inputpanel1.enabled = false.

For the cursor, same as the full framework - Cursor.Current = Cursors.WaitCursor and Cursor.Current = Cursors.Default

Pete

[szlamany]

Thanks!

Is it appropriate though? Do you do that in you mobile apps?

[Strider]

if u have a device with a keyboard then there is no need to use a SIP....
however if you dont it is better to popup a keyboard and also maybe move the form or panel y position -80 if the textbox is in the part of the screen where the SIP will show...

[szlamany]

Thanks again!